the intercommunal net,
scaling safe communities
with shared resources &
democratic tools

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What is Blacksky Algorithms?

Every online community should control its own destiny. We’re building the intercommunal net where communities can use decentralized tools to govern themselves, pool resources, and stay safe on their own terms.

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Safe Spaces, Your Way

Build communities where people actually want to hang out. Set your own rules, moderate content together, and create spaces that work for your community.

Fund Things Together

Pool money for what matters to your community. Whether it’s covering server costs, paying creators, or funding local projects.

Decide Together

Make decisions as a community, not as subjects of a platform. Vote on changes, allocate resources democratically, and govern your space with decentralized tools built for collective decision-making.

Recent Posts

Rudy Fraser presenting at a lectern
Rudy Fraser

When Oligarchs Silence Filmmakers: Why We Need a New Social Media

Shadow bans. Vanishing accounts. Blocked ads. Rudy Fraser, Rishi Balakrishnan, and Dr. AJ Escoffery explore a community-owned alternative that’s already helping filmmakers get their films seen.

Rudy on stage at Decidim
Decidim

What is to be done: strategies and tactics for a new (geo)political landscape

The world is changing: new technologies, powers and alliances are reconfiguring the coordinates of world and digital politics. We know what we want to move away from: a world and an internet shaped by a few, where capital, coloniality and geopolitical power define the present and future. But how do we actually get there? This session brings the conversation down to the ground, exploring how grassroots communities and social movements around the world are already building alternatives and creating new ways of organising, communicating and shaping technology, while dealing with the geopolitical realignments that define our time

Nabiha Syed [Source photos: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Meteor; Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]
Fast Company

Mozilla has a plan to rescue us from the zombie internet

“Do you see any open spaces that still have that ethos?” Rudy Fraser from Blacksky is one of our fellows. We’re actively celebrating him as a fellow and supporting his work as a fellow. I think there are experiments there, and we want to encourage them.

Pushing Through The Concrete
Mozilla Foundation

Pushing Through The Concrete | MozFest 2026 Main Stage (Video)

Watch the recording of Rudy on the MozFest main stage from his October 30th, 2026 presenting for the “Pushing Through The Concrete” panel.

Rudy Fraser

Reclaiming Social Spaces: Are Open Source Platforms a Path for More Human Connection?

What if social media platforms were built to serve their communities, not billionaires? Join us with the founder of Blacksky as we explore the potential of open source social media.